Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday endorsed socialist Democrat Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral race, praising the nominee’s “bold, sweeping” agenda on affordability.
“We don’t just need Zohran Mamdani to be our mayor because he has the right ideas, or because they can be achieved,” de Blasio wrote in a New York Daily News op-ed. “We need him because in his heart and in his bones he cannot accept a city that prices out the people who built it and keep it running.”
De Blasio pointed to Mamdani’s platform — rent freezes, free child care and free city buses — as key to his primary victory. He argued that critics once dismissed his own policies, including pre-K for all and paid sick leave, as “recklessly idealistic,” but said Mamdani’s vision was feasible and necessary.
The ex-mayor, who backed Eric Adams in 2021, also cast the race in contrast to President Trump’s federal agenda, warning that cuts to programs like SNAP and Medicaid made Mamdani’s candidacy urgent.
Mamdani, who won the Democratic nomination in June, will face Adams — now running as an independent — along with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, and attorney Jim Walden on the November ballot.
More over at The New York Post:
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